Legacy includes outreach, abuse scandal: #tellusatoday

We asked our followers on Twitter what Pope Benedict XVI's legacy would be. Comments are edited for clarity and grammar:

Pope Benedict will be remembered as one who got closer to the youth, adopting new tech ways to get to them in their language.

— @SinFronteraPeru

I'm afraid he will forever be remembered as implicated in the priest pedophilia scandal.

— @Amelia_E_Adler

His legacy will simply be that he resigned, but maybe honorably, removing himself from a job he couldn't do well anymore.

— @yeamal

The last pope brought down communism. I can't remember a single item the current one has done.

— @klifc

The pope's legacy is unfinished.

— @TjioeLiesar

The legacy of Pope Benedict is not a problem. The real problem: Who is it going to be elected after him? I'm conservative and afraid the new pope will be a modernist.

— @piotr_popiel

The next pope needs to be a man of God. Plain and simple. Nothing more, nothing less. That's the job of a pope.

— @ms1brinker

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